Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e07307cb41f88673…

MALICIOUS

PDF

84.4 KB Created: 2021-09-06 17:53:13 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: cba0149279b883a244321cc9e4189e96 SHA-1: e7d607d1eb40667e7f6e2c071f7893aff8519561 SHA-256: e07307cb41f8867380397aed3366ba5fd418b23c107dbc41cf65b2ec6f9662a4
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF was flagged by ML classifiers and ClamAV as malicious, specifically as a phishing trojan. Heuristics indicate it functions as a link farm, directing users to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting sites. The embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly suggest an attempt to redirect users to malicious content, likely for phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9938

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://leap-egypt.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1611d3dab4a017---wabewosovizodezoredabu.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://makeswebsites.com/clients/c/c8/c8c605999f3d8352d7bb792cf3fdb25b/File/koposapidodomawiki.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wpsqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/43171d42d5cf62767a11274eed03bfb7/28131956187.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.sunarpazarlama.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/uvbq4nmb9ds39e1jnjhjl9kpe4/70530988078.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cashofferoregon.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a83b13d6127---bisoxakodixebovidowiwela.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.chinacimctrailer.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8846626e7f4981d55a98df47e2c2f82b/99783003378.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://tkpmission.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609d38c8a5328---fijukuvuwexoxo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ensasoft.com.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/mm8cvrk9sqb775jtafnjcddjap/85632065232.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cargo3030.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160de0f9a54403---40587278880.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.northernillumination.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/5fe14c0bfa259c32702d20088bc09cd5/nudenerenexumupo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://branonperformance.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/dolalofu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1610b5d343f0c7---36607263875.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zaun-produzent.de/userfiles/file/11319627811.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://fuli-capital.com/userfiles/file/bawetove.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ventana-sur.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608efb8ae6ae8.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://zakuskymoser.cz/www/ckfinder/userfiles/files/20440305360.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://patriciogaete.com/upload/file/runazujedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harkakotony.hu/UserFiles/file/32204710524.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.theagentpipeline.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bdeeda8072b---newajilobubilono.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://414movement.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1947ae784e8c40fc7b6d419bf783e88/resawe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://guerrazzi.info/userfiles/files/kedajekapurur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.rafaellucenaehijos.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/70520291292.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hbaoge.com/upload/files/tilavotevu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.reroofingbrisbaneqld.com.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/161251f389aade---53286790525.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://novaserv.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bd4e4c07329---44191803648.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/6naE_Nh8_CY/uplcv?utm_term=cara+menggabungkan+file+word+yang+terpisah+ke+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000dd07.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDD07 16564 bytes
SHA-256: 432572716bff74e6ec5e3e129239ddb2e1eb4b1739edd00b717246e8542ec40e
font_01_sfnt_off00010821.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10821 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off00012038.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12038 11508 bytes
SHA-256: cdf26e2909d03b6cca4541047c1ef4d070f40c0c3e52147ac2250c82ade44693
font_03_sfnt_off00013ae6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x13AE6 1696 bytes
SHA-256: 266b75d8d95edd4e06796966e43e1bb0a7116b249193fb313f1988fa9bd38e89